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Brokerage and Networks in London’s Global World: Kinship, Commerce and Communities through the experience of John Blackwell book cover

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Brokerage and Networks in London’s Global World Kinship, Commerce and Communities through the experience of John Blackwell

By David Farr Copyright 2022
360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge
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The Londoner John Blackwell (1624-1701), shaped by his parents’ Puritanism and merchant interests of his iconoclast father, became one of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army captains. Working with his father in Parliament’s financial administration both supported the regicide and benefitted financially from the subsequent sales of land from those defeated in the civil wars. Surviving the... Read more

Introduction

PART 1:1594-1660

1 Puritan Activists, 1594-1642

2 War, 1642-1646

3 Revolution, 1646-1649

4 Administrator and Politician, 1645-1660

5 Speculators and Agents, 1646-1660

PART 2:1660-1691

6 Survival and new opportunities, 1660-1672

7 Kin and Brokerage, 1647-1693

8 Blackwell in America: Massachusetts, 1684-1688

9 Blackwell in America: Pennsylvania, 1688-1690

PART 3:1691-1727

10 Blackwell and Lambert Blackwell: London and Italy, 1672-1701

11 Lambert Blackwell in Italy: Merchant, Consul and Envoy, 1684-1705

12 Lambert Blackwell in Italy: representative of the English state at war, 1690-1705

13 Lambert Blackwell: Financier, MP and landed elite, 1705-1720

14 Lambert Blackwell and the South Sea Bubble, 1711-1727

Conclusion - the Blackwells: kinship networks, communities and ownership of the memory of the civil wars

Biography

David Farr is Deputy Head Academic of Norwich School. He is author of full-length studies of the Cromwellian military-religious figures, John Lambert, Henry Ireton, Thomas Harrison and Hezekiah Haynes and the failure of Oliver Cromwell’s Godly Revolution, 1594-1704 (2020).

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